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...some ways, it is the strangest medical school in the world. Many of the students are only one generation removed from cannibalism. They are Fijians, Maoris (from New Zealand), Samoans, natives of the Solomon, Cook, New Hebrides, Tonga, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, and a few East Indians...
...instruments in dense cloud over Italy. Tail Gunner James A. Raley, on his thirteenth mission, heard the navigator call out the altitude -19,500 feet. Then the plane jolted, seemed to stop. The intercom went out. Sergeant Raley, hurled into one of the air war's strangest adventures, figured in his lonely section that his plane had collided with another Fortress...
...song on their lips, "Deep in the Heart of Texas," which gave wry satisfaction to the Texas cavalrymen who killed them. The survivors of the blast of U.S. fire ended it all by hugging grenades and pulling the pins. Said an American general veteran of the last war, "the strangest thing I have ever witnessed...
...book-lined living room and made ready for one of the famous Lamb literary evenings. Once Coleridge talked for two hours without stopping, while Wordsworth nodded approvingly from time to time. Asked later if he had understood what Coleridge was talking about, Wordsworth replied: "Not one syllable." Strangest visitor of all was Painter and Essayist Thomas Griffiths Wainewright-who suddenly departed for Paris. Reason: over a period of years he had quietly poisoned his uncle, his mother-in-law and two sisters...
...furnishings included an enormous bed of French Empire style, a William & Mary highboy, girandole mirrors, a sofa of beechwood, an upholstered rocker, and "a flock of odds and ends, worthless as antiques, but authentic relics of the ball-fringe, loveseat, blackwalnut, gilded-cattail era of curvature and upholstery. . . ." The strangest quality of Hallelujah is that without specific descriptions Fannie Hurst manages to make this superheated atmosphere quiver with a heavy, middle-aged eroticism. In the St. Louis, Mo. (pop. 816,000) that she describes, the commonplaces of existence - setting the table, visiting the neighbors, coming home from work...